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'Ukrainian counter-attacks, and Russian forces falling back on overextended supply lines, has allowed Ukraine to re-occupy towns and defensive positions up to 35 kilometres (22 miles) east of Kyiv,' Britain's defence ministry said in a daily update.įurther east, Russian strikes targeting a medical facility in Ukraine's second city Kharkiv killed four civilians and wounded several others, police said.
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'We insist, first of all, on a ceasefire, security guarantees, and territorial integrity of Ukraine,' he said.Īnd while Mariupol and other places are now charred ruins, Western systems including shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles have helped Ukraine's armed forces hold their line - and increasingly to go on the offensive. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, however, indicated no let-up in his country's refusal to accede to Russian demands after what he termed 'very difficult' talks with Moscow. Sergei Rudskoi, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Russia's armed forces, said the shift was possible because 'the combat potential of Ukraine's armed forces has been significantly reduced'. In a potentially significant shift, the Russian army said the first phase of its campaign was over and its troops would now focus on the 'liberation' of the Russian-speaking Donbas region in Ukraine's east. of the forces being no longer combat effective - that's a pretty remarkable set of statistics,' the Western official said.Ī Russian battalion typically consists of approximately 600 to 800 officers and soldiers, 200 of which are infantrymen equipped with around 10 tanks and 40 infantry fighting vehicles - such as armoured troop carriers.ĭespite mobilising a force of between 150,000 and 200,000 Russian troops, Moscow has failed to anticipate anything other than weak resistance by the Ukrainian forces - likely owing to Russian intelligence failures.Ī senior NATO military officer said the alliance estimates that Russia has suffered between 30,000 and 40,000 battlefield casualties in Ukraine through the first month of the war, including between 7,000 and 15,000 killed.īlunders early on in the campaign including poor planning and logistics that saw vehicles stall due to breakdowns, run out of fuel and get bogged down in mud are thought to be behind the eye-watering officer death toll - as commanders were forced to the front to fix the problems before being picked off by Ukrainians. 'After a month of operations to have somewhere in the region of perhaps a sixth. Officials there believe around 20 of the 115-120 battalion tactical groups deployed by Moscow in Ukraine are 'no longer combat effective' due to the losses sustained. The Kremlin claimed Friday that just over 1,300 military personnel have died in the war, but estimates of four or five times that number are seen as credible in Western capitals. Instead he has found himself sucked into a hugely demanding war of attrition. Putin is thought to have planned for a short and sharp invasion lasting only a few days, aimed at decapitating the government and installing a puppet regime.
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It has been blamed in part on communications and logistics issues, leading senior officers to use unencrypted channels which has exposed them to Ukrainian forces. The number of both rank-and-file Russian troops and senior officers allegedly killed in the month-long war has shocked Western military and security officials. Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, (left) commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting in the besieged city of Mariupol while Major General Vitaly Gerasimov (right) was killed on March 7 outside the eastern city of Kharkiv